Sad but true

Richard Littlejohn tells it so well in his column today:

"After me, children: My Sharia Armour"

"When I went to Sunday school, a million years ago, we were taught to love our neighbour.

I don’t recall ever being told that we should take an ‘eye for an eye’ literally. Or that the punishment for homosexuality was death.

Aged six, we didn’t even know what homosexuality was, even though we’d been warned to steer clear of that chap who was always hanging round the swimming pool. We were also taught that Jesus was King of the Jews - not that the Jews were plotting to take over the world and should all be killed.

But thousands of children in Britain are now being indoctrinated in the brutal ways of Islamic Sharia law, according to an investigation by BBC’s Panorama.

At weekend schools, young ­Muslims, aged between six and 15, are receiving lessons in how to hack off a criminal’s hand or foot. They are being told that the penalty for gay sex is execution and that Jews are ‘reprehensible’ Zionists bent on world domination.

This filth is part of the standard curriculum at 40 weekend schools in this country. To no one’s great surprise, it is bankrolled by our good ‘friends’ the Saudis.

If this kind of hatred was ­peddled by any other group in Britain, they would be prosecuted and the schools shut down.

But, yet again, militant Islam seems to be immune from the usual strictures of the laws against incitement.

We are told over and over again that it is difficult to single out Islamic organisations for investigation. All religions operate weekend schools.

Yes, but Jewish and Anglican schools don’t preach amputation and murder. At my Sunday school, we made farmyard animals out of Plasticine to put round the manger. What next: teaching kids how to turn plastic explosives into a suicide belt? The authorities are scared stiff of offending ‘peace-loving’ Muslims, so they turn a blind eye to violent jihadists in our schools and on our streets.

When Channel 4’s Dispatches went undercover and exposed the hatred being preached in mosques, the bold West Midlands police investigated the programme’s ­producers, not the preachers of death.

If this latest exposé runs true to form, it’s the makers of Panorama who can expect a visit from Plod. "

"... and this line tells me you stole 50p from your daughter's piggy bank."